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College Events: International Film Series

CLC International Film Series
presented by International Education Department
--All of the films are free and are subtitled when necessary.
--All of the films have adult content and are not suitable for childrenContact Chris Cooling at 543-2623 for further information.Email: ccooling@clcillinois.edu

Following series favorites About Elly and A Separation, writer-director Asghar Farhadi's latest won him a second Foreign Language Oscar in only five years. A married couple are about to star in a small production of Death of a Salesman when the wife is shockingly attacked in their Tehran apartment. But the husband's pursuit of justice, and the group's adaption of Arthur Miller, are both frustrated by Iranian social repression. ... With exquisite patience and attention to detail, [The salesman] builds a solid and suspenseful plot ... and packs it with rich and resonant ideas."

After pulling off a series of terrorist attacks throughout Paris, a group of teens and twenty-somethings hide out overnight in an upscale department store. Inside they are gradually beset by the forces of consumerism, ghosts and their own consciences. Equal parts Dawn of the Dead, Zero Dark Thirty and The Breakfast Club, this sumptuous provocation was controversial in France. As its director was writing the script in 2015, the Charlie Hebdo massacre occurred, and the film was released soon after the Batacian attack.

Nocturama "is at once damnable and debonair. It seduces as it repels."